Educational Insights 1732 Koala Capers Game

Very simple and cute. Kids like it but it does get old fast.

The Kids Table series from Purple Phoenix Games seeks to lightly explore games that are focused toward children and families. We will do our best to give some good insight, but not bog your down with the millions of rules…<br /><br />Koala Capers is a silly dice and pattern recognition game that kids way younger than 3 years old can play; I have played it with my 2 year old – for like 5 minutes.<br /><br />The game comes in a non-conforming, but fun, box that we used as a dice tray. You roll the dice, try to find an outfit card that matches what you rolled and place the new outfit on your koala card (the one shown below is currently naked). If you roll underpants, you make your koala naked and try again. If you roll a star it's wild and you can choose any outfit you like.<br /><br />This is an easy winner. It has very few components, very few rules, and has lots of silliness in it – especially when you roll the undies. Kids love when adults lose. My boy really likes it, and it has been his first choice from his small collection lately.<br /><br />Give it a try if you want to introduce your children or family into dice rolling, customizing characters, light set collection, learning patterns, and also possibly having to reconstruct after rolling poorly. We like it a lot, for what it is.

We love this game, it is simple to learn and to play. My daughter loves that gets to choose the outfits each time, and quickly learned to match the patterns.

I picked this up to play with my 1.5 yr old and my little one is able to play with some assistance picking out clothing patterns. She can easily put the outfits over the koala. My 4 yr old joined us for a few rounds and likes it well enough. I like that the pieces are sturdy because my baby is still rough with things sometimes. I would say this game is more 2+ than 3+, I like how easy it is to put the pieces on the cards, the game is fast, the cards and overall game pieces are cute.<br /><br />I did notice that during one of our rounds we ran out of a particular pattern, I think it was floral, so on the next turn when it a floral was rolled I let my preschooler pick a different pattern.

Super cute game. My kids love it!

My son's speech therapist had this in her office and she used it to help him in therapy. We loved it so much, we got it! Great game for preschool and kindergarten aged children especially. But the whole family can join in.